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kpete

(72,014 posts)
Fri Mar 9, 2012, 05:09 PM Mar 2012

Georgia lawmaker compares women to cows and pigs

Republican Georgia state Rep. Terry England says that his experience with cows, pigs and chickens has proven to him that women should be forced to have their babies after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

In a debate over Georgia House Bill 954, which would ban abortions after 20 weeks even if the baby is not expected to live, England recalled the time he had spent with livestock.

“Life gives us many experiences,” he explained. “I’ve had the experience of delivering calves, dead and alive — delivering pigs, dead and alive. … It breaks our hearts to see those animals not make it.”



England continued: “You know a few years ago, I had a man come to me in our store, it was when we were debating, talking about dog and hog hunting, I believe, and at that point there was some language inserted in there that dealt with chicken fighting. And the young man called me to the side and he said, ‘I want to tell you one thing.’ And y’all, this is salt of the Earth people I’m talking about, someone I would have never in a hundred years expected to tell me what he told me that day.”

more:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/09/georgia-lawmaker-compares-women-to-cows-and-pigs/
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Georgia lawmaker compares women to cows and pigs (Original Post) kpete Mar 2012 OP
Ew. Troglodyte. BlueIris Mar 2012 #1
My first thought is that you can definitely SheilaT Mar 2012 #2
The countdown has started to leave GA wilt the stilt Mar 2012 #3
take me with you. unapatriciated Mar 2012 #4
"This state sucks" SammyWinstonJack Mar 2012 #6
Someone needs to have a good talk with this guy about how most male livestock is treated. saras Mar 2012 #5
lol Matariki Mar 2012 #8
I can't even make any sense out of that. Matariki Mar 2012 #7
someone post this guy's contact info tabbycat31 Mar 2012 #9

BlueIris

(29,135 posts)
1. Ew. Troglodyte.
Fri Mar 9, 2012, 05:23 PM
Mar 2012

I'm so disturbed to see this crap regurgitated in state houses once again. This will cost lives and create misery.

 

SheilaT

(23,156 posts)
2. My first thought is that you can definitely
Fri Mar 9, 2012, 05:39 PM
Mar 2012

tell that this man's never been pregnant.

Someone wrote a book some years ago called, "If Men Got Pregnant, Abortion Would Be a Sacrament".

Matariki

(18,775 posts)
8. lol
Fri Mar 9, 2012, 07:26 PM
Mar 2012

although I'm sure he'd self identify with the studs, and maybe applaud the logical conclusion.

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